Try providing the output of; for ii in /dev/[sh]d[a-z] ; do parted $ii print ; done If you have any kind of partition table this should tell us what it is. If you don't, something odd is happening. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html